Iman shares treasured family photos

While Iman and David Bowie were fiercely private about their family life, the supermodel has revealed precious moments on Instagram.

While the world mourns the death of musician David Bowie from cancer, our hearts are breaking for David Bowie's beloved wife Iman and his children, Duncan, 44, and Alexandra, 15.

Son Duncan is a famous movie director, best known for directing the award-winning science fiction films Moon and Source Code, but very little is known about Alexandra, nicknamed 'Lexi' by her parents.

David and Iman have always been fiercely protective of their family life.

Iman and David's "miracle" daughter Lexi.

Iman recently noted in an Instagram post: "90 percent of my private life doesn't make it to social media and there is a reason for that."

She was proud that her family had managed to find the "fine line in living between private and public life and surviving it without bodyguards."

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Despite all the fame David's music brought, it was his family that gave him the most joy.

He once admitted to being so besotted with Iman that he was “naming the children the first night we met".

The couple married in 1992, but had trouble conceiving. Iman was 45 when she happily and unexpectedly became pregnant with Alexandria. “People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There’s the miracle of conception,” she told People in 2009.

“I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.”

David was by Iman's side during the birth and cut the umbilical cord.

In an interview with Hello! magazine after Alexandria’s arrival, Iman noted, “We’ve always been very close, but if it’s possible, we’ve been drawn even closer. There’s a joy or a contentment that’s almost palpable to both of us. Overnight, our lives have been enriched beyond belief.”

Iman has given little glimpses into their lives over the years via her Instagram account.

She once famously said: “I fell in love with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie. Bowie is just a persona.” She always referenced him as Mr Jones on Instagram, captioning the above shot: "Mr & Mrs Jones 23 yrs & going strong! #Love."

On the couple's wedding anniversary in 2014, Iman shared a photograph captioned: "22 years and still in love #anniversary."

She told Harper's Bazaar in 2010: "We have fun with each other. He's very English in a way that he's a gentleman. David doesn't fight. He is English, so he just stays quiet. I'm the screamer. Then he always makes me laugh. It's like cabaret. I keep him entertained, too. I still fancy him—totally!— after all these years."

Like her father, Lexi loves to play music and the pair would often jam together. On Father's Day, Iman wrote a message from her daughter to her dad: "I'm my father's daughter! Happy Father's Day, love Lexi #father'sday."

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